Then and Now
Last year I co-taught a class called "Wealth: Religious Approaches" and ran a related workshop, "Jewish Approaches to Wealth and Poverty." I am now preparing the sources presented at the workshop for publication and will be teaching a new course … [Continue reading] about Jews and Money: A New Course
A few years back I tried to incorporate video clips into my teaching. Below is a link to a brief account I recently published in AJS Perspectives on this … [Continue reading] about Using Video in Religious Studies Classes
I had a letter published in the New York Times yesterday. I actually wrote it a couple of weeks ago. I continue to be upset by the enormous impact that money has on our legal system; it seems so very un-American. At the same time, in light of the … [Continue reading] about Justice for All
Now back home it will take me a while to process what I've learned at The Big Ancient Mediterranean Conference, and even longer to work through my new, vastly expanded, to-do list. Here I want only to sketch out a few thoughts. I don't think that … [Continue reading] about Create, Process, Link: Some Final Thoughts on The Big Ancient Mediterranean Conference
As The Big Ancient Mediterranean Conference begins to wind down, my head is swirling. People are working on amazing things and it is hard not to keep thinking of all the different ways to learn from them in order to better enhance my own project. … [Continue reading] about The Big Ancient Mediterranean: Middle Thoughts